It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
ALDOUS HUXLEYChronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
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If you don’t gamble, you’ll never win.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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